For those of you who didn't start out in education/teaching, how did you decide that instructional design was right for you?
I'm (27f) in a bit of a strange situation. I have about 6 months left of living overseas for my spouse's military service. I just graduated online with a bachelor's of English/ technical writing. Honestly, I've had a pretty hard time figuring out what I want to do with my life and basically had zero stability in life until this past year. I've been talking with a career counselor on base and she said that instructional design may be a good fit for me, based on what I have done well at in the past and the kind of environments I tend to do well in (definitely not anything high pressure or super personal like sales lol)
The counselor has encouraged me to pursue a a masters of instructional design from WGU (I know it has a longer name, I just forgot what it is right now). Over the next 6 months, I likely will not be able to work at all due to how competitive it is on bases to find jobs. I figure I might as well work towards waifu. But I've honestly never had much of a direction that felt aligned and possible for me.
TBH, none of this is super important to my question. But how did you know that instructional design was right for you? What strengths did you bring into it or learn from it? What advice would you give for somebody without an education background?